The arrangements appear to be chiefly determined by who won the state's Republican primary. States won by nomination winner Donald Trump, like New York and California, received prime seating for their delegates, while states that voted for other nominees, including Texas, are stuck in the nosebleeds.

http://tinyurl.com/juakvra

"Kirk, old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb, 'Revenge is a dish best served cold'?"

Have to say, doesn't really look that different from past conventions in prime time on the big nights. Just fewer grasping pols in the scrub slots, which is no great loss:

http://convention.gop/tagged/media

Also, Ivanka is Trump's lead-in to his acceptance speech, which is delightful.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 18, 2016 06:29 AM (kdS6q)

13Maybe the FBI shd be out looking for the terrorist's wife instead of issuing reports on homophobia?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 18, 2016 06:30 AM (iQIUe)

14
The Governor is right saying no way to the Cops trying to ban open carry at the convention.

While in a way I can understand why the Cops wanted to ask, it is the Law of the State and if it can be "suspended" for this one time and place, precedent says it could be permanently revoked at any time in the future.

30
An interesting excerpt from the response sent to my email for the petition on We The People to designate BLM as a terrorist organization:

"As part of these conversations, the President directly addressed the concern that the "Black Lives Matter" slogan, social media movement, and the associated protests are somehow inherently anti-police:

"I know that there are some who have criticized even the phrase 'black lives matter,' as if the notion is, is that other lives don't matter. And so you get 'all lives matter' or 'blue lives matter.' I understand the point they're trying to make. I think it's important for us to also understand that the phrase 'black lives matter' simply refers to the notion that there's a specific vulnerability for African Americans that needs to be addressed. It's not meant to suggest that other lives don't matter. It's to suggest that other folks aren't experiencing this particular vulnerability."

Nothing but hooey and more hooey after that!...phrase...slogan..yeah...

32A state-by-state look at what people who like the presidential candidates or members of their respective parties also like on Facebook. To determine the data set used below, Facebook took that audience, removed people that liked both pages and looked at what other items the people had liked on Facebook.

graphics.wsj.com/elections/2016/facebook-likes/?mod=e2tw

Hillary fans like The Rachel Maddow Show? Tres suprise.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 18, 2016 06:54 AM (kdS6q)

33The French people have put a pile of garbage on the spot where the Nice murderer was killed.

Political Hat: When you link back to your blog, could you keep the URL on its own line, rather than putting "More:" on the same line? First world problems, I know, but it's much easier to select a URL to copy/paste when it's on its own line. Thanks!

Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2016 06:56 AM (8nWyX)

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33
The French people have put a pile of garbage on the spot where the Nice murderer was killed.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 18, 2016 06:54 AM (iQIUe)

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25 What the hell do judges have to do with a coup?
Posted by: Jean at July 18, 2016 06:46 AM (Doh4+)

The judges are supposed to keep the sedans from participating, this is a coup only race.

Posted by: Car Facts at July 18, 2016 07:18 AM (DF+RM)

59
Thanks for your prayers for Agatha. She was doing better yesterday, but it's so hard to watch her struggling to get her breath and she's exhausted after two days of coughing and rasping. No chasing squirrels, no long walks, no excitement. We have to treat her like a fragile old lady now.

Posted by: biancaneve at July 18, 2016 07:18 AM (3fayT)

60It is too late for that to happenPosted by: The Great White Scotsman

"With Sasse's assault, that will all come into order."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 18, 2016 07:18 AM (kdS6q)

61
So this is where everyone went. I posted my links at 6 on the ONT. Did not expect the dump at 6.

The FAB was busy dodging making a statement on the BR shootings, but she wasn't soooo busy that she didn't have time to make fun of the RNC convention line-up. Buncha D-list celebs and minor level Repubs, she said.

Yeah, Sugartits, our side will be a bit short on the eminent deep thinkers like Steamed Pussy Paltrow and Hugo Huggin' Sean Penn. Or the most esteemed tax crook Al Sharpton.

65
The White House now forecasts that gross domestic product will rise 1.9% this year and 2.5% in 2017, down from estimates of 2.6% for both years in its February forecast. It reduced long-run growth forecasts, for years after 2018, to 2.2% from 2.3%.

75
That Kayshit thing surprised me.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 18, 2016 07:21 AM (mpXpK)

Kasich isn't all bad. He does do some sensible things.

What'd he do? Other than state he can't unilaterally change state law by himself.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at July 18, 2016 07:27 AM (m/IZ9)

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67>> There's pleno a hora..... Just gotta maneuver the MSM to bring the pressure to bear. You saw it begin to swing into position with Krauthammer and Will feigning shock and dismay at his recalcitrance to common sense. Be patient, he'll concede. Its what RINOs do.

78
Given that Bill Kristol and other
prominent establishment conservatives have been so successful at
stemming and even turning back the leftist hordes over the years people should be listening to him.
Posted by: Ripley at July 18, 2016 07:25 AM (1BQGO)

My pet theory is that because the GOPe has gotten used to playing failure theater, they didn't know how to actually face a semi-competent challenger from within the party. We play to lose is baked into their nature now.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at July 18, 2016 07:28 AM (Ee2nz)

79
>>>>The White House now forecasts that gross domestic product will rise 1.9%
this year and 2.5% in 2017, down from estimates of 2.6% for both years
in its February forecast. It reduced long-run growth forecasts, for
years after 2018, to 2.2% from 2.3%.....Remove all Governmental spending form those numbers and we are actually experiencing negative growth rates.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 18, 2016 07:28 AM (iONHu)

80 The White House now forecasts that gross domestic product will rise 1.9% this year and 2.5% in 2017, down from estimates of 2.6% for both years in its February forecast. It reduced long-run growth forecasts, for years after 2018, to 2.2% from 2.3%.

Time to "reformulate how GDP is calculated." The Obama Regime will figure out a way to calculate #BlackLivesMatter protests and illegal border crossings as economic activity.

Lionsgate and Beijing-based film company Leomus Pictures are set to co-produce a Chinese-language spinoff of magician thriller franchise Now You See Me.

Lionsgate and Leomus have good reason to be optimistic about the prospects for a Chinese-language addition to the franchise. In June, the sequal Now You See Me 2 debuted to $43.3 million in China, nearly double its bow in North America ($23 million). After three weeks on Chinese screens, Now You See Me 2 has earned $94.5 million:

Here's an expression I recently heard on a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie:

"All fur, no knickers."

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at July 18, 2016 07:29 AM (1ijHg)

Way back in the 70s when I was palling around with the Oakland cops they uniformly hated the Fibbies. They maintain that other than lab work they were not worth a shit and got their reputation from taking credit for work done by the local cops.

96
Reportedly, Chris Christie was actually devastated that he didn't get the VP nod. Sad.

In totally unrelated news, New Jersey has declared a statewide donut shortage.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 18, 2016 07:40 AM (gyKtp)

97
The BR shooting occurred, according to an eyewitness I saw on Fox last night, in a neighborhood that is considered generally safe. The same is true of the neighborhood where a Milwaukee cop was shot this weekend - it's nothing fancy, but it's certainly not the hood.

The BLMers are deliberately bringing the violence out of the hood into white and mixed areas. Message: don't think you're safe anywhere. The same message ISIS is conveying. But don't call BLM a terrorist organization, oh no!

"The Western district of the Methodist
church has elected an openly gay bishop despite the denomination's ban
on same-sex relationships.

The Rev. Karen Oliveto was elected late Friday night
at a meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, of the church's Western
Jurisdiction. Oliveto is pastor of Glide Memorial United Methodist
Church in San Francisco. She is the first openly gay bishop in the 12.7
million-member denomination."

This is wrong on a number of levels. First, the Scriptures teach that a leader in the church is to be above reproach, And that all Christians are to maintain sexual purity outside of a marriage relationship. Thirdly, she defied the rules and the authority of the denomination she claims to serve. In other words, she is in rebellion against her own church. Anyone in that state should be removed from leadership. Gays, lesbians, transgenders, what-have-you should be welcomed in the church, but they should not be leading the flock.

I'm sure there are other theological points I have failed to list but I'm only on my first cup of coffee.

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The BLMers are deliberately bringing the violence out of the hood into white and mixed areas. Message: don't think you're safe anywhere. The same message ISIS is conveying. But don't call BLM a terrorist organization, oh no!

Saw one tweet trying to justify it: "There'll be no justice while it's legal to kill us".

Someone needs to explain "legal" to them.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at July 18, 2016 07:52 AM (m/IZ9)

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98 The French people have put a pile of garbage on the spot where the Nice murderer was killed.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 18, 2016 06:54 AM (iQIUe)

That will show them. Don't do anything about the real problem.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 18, 2016 07:42 AM (GILMl)

Doesn't do anything, but it's a step up from those damned stuffed animal and flower memorials.

The Western Jurisdiction of the UMC-which includes left coast areas such as Portland and includes any states west of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and AZ is the most liberal of the US Conferences in my opinion. they are also losing members by the boatload and are not self supporting. See link from the conservative Episcopal stye. The woman is nutty but hardly a surprise that she was selected there. Im more upset that in a photo she's holding up a sign saying. "We are all Muslims now" or that she criticizes Paul for casting a demon out of a slave girl because the woman couldn't then earn a living at fortune telling!!. Does that mean I support UMs in flouting church discipline in ordaining a woman as a Bishop who's gay? No' I mean that that UMs are following the unhappy trajectory of the Episcopal Church in some of their decisions. Other Conferences are already challenging this

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 18, 2016 07:54 AM (bpZlE)

117White leftists and politicians will fight to the last BLM protestor.

119
Link to a conservative Episcopal take on the UM ordination of a gay Bishop:

http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/32188

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 18, 2016 07:58 AM (bpZlE)

120
Remember when they piled all that shit in the middle of the street for Mike Brown? Then one of them set it on fire. So, another big pile of soggy dirty stuffed animals piled up. I think the Smithsonian took a sample (our tax dollars at work), the rest was to be stored and saved for a future museum, I shit you not. But people found most of it in trash bins and went ballistic. The org that collected them tried to explain that they were moldy and rotting. Anyway, Mike Brown's mom got some sort of plaque on the grass where Mike died even tho it was clear to everyone that he was a thug.

129
It took me forty years, but I have made a decision and I stand with Joe Tex:

I ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman.

Please adjust your comments accordingly.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 18, 2016 08:07 AM (B+qrE)

130
White supremacists, the Klan, etc., exist largely in people's imagination. Like the media making gays look like 25% of the population, they make white racists out to be 500x more in numbers and activity to what exists in reality and that they're popping up from every rock.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 18, 2016 08:07 AM (iLoHX)

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126
I think Obama is going to speak to the country again.
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 18, 2016 08:02 AM (8cftc)

141
That terrorism, BLM, social justice... bullshit, mass immigration against the interests of states (countries), wanton violent civil disobedience, dismantlement of societal norms - that all of this is taking place and picking up pace: Whose interests does it serve?

One would need to be brain dead to think that all of this is just an unusual set of coincidental coincidences.

They allowed the 'occupy' movement to take over national parks and monuments for months, disrupting the lives of possibly millions of people and causing millions in damage while shrugging off violent crimes, rapes, what have you, yet the murder a rancher for occupying an obscure government shack.

It's not just whose purposes does it serve, but what is the scope of what is trying to be achieved?

148
Glide is a huge church here. It is a political and social service powerhouse that receives a lot of public dollars. Much like the People's Temple was in the 1970s.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2016 08:17 AM (EZebt)

149
Remember back in the 80s when everyone thought Reagan and Jerry Falwell were going to turn America into some puritanical theocracy? "

Ah yes. Recall the vapid idiocy of Margaret Atwood, fanning the flames of stupidity across campii and amongst white women of a certain class in 'Murrica.

It continues to influence a generation...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 18, 2016 08:18 AM (C9pBZ)

150There were some mexicans about a month ago who doused a poor dog and set it on fire. The poor thing ran around for a couple of minutes, in flames, screaming in pain. No one tried to even catch it and put the flames out.

I hate people.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 18, 2016 08:18 AM (iQIUe)

151
Remember back in the 80s when everyone thought Reagan and Jerry Falwell were going to turn America into some puritanical theocracy?

156Remember back in the 80s when everyone thought Reagan and Jerry Falwell were going to turn America into some puritanical theocracy?

Yeah, and then Al Gore's wife tried to censor music, followed by the massively unfunny Roseanne Arnold griping about being fat and men every week, followed by sexual harassment is OK if a Clinton does it, followed by giant worldwide terrorist attacks, followed by trigger warnings if you don't see Ghostbusters.

The Age of Stupid. Revel in it.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 18, 2016 08:22 AM (B+qrE)

157Every big name murder defendant is taken down to the AME church in LA, presented, cheered. I always assumed it is for publicity and the church receives cash for it.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 18, 2016 08:22 AM (iQIUe)

158
Urkle's statement on Louisiana is most likely b/c his shuck n jive is polling badly from his coffin dancing in DFW.

Posted by: sven10077 at July 18, 2016 08:23 AM (SzZnW)

159Whoops! Michael Jackson was also an AME attendee. He didnt murder anyone. He was on trial for porking kids. Mea culpa.

170
Yeah, and then Al Gore's wife tried to censor music, followed by the massively unfunny Roseanne Arnold griping about being fat and men every week, followed by sexual harassment is OK if a Clinton does it, followed by giant worldwide terrorist attacks, followed by trigger warnings if you don't see Ghostbusters.

The Age of Stupid. Revel in it.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 18, 2016 08:22 AM (B+qrE)

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I will give credit to Rosanne Barr for this: She is a big supporter of Israel and confronts the joo haters on twitter. She's very good at it, too.

so they invested ~155 million to make in all likelihood 75 million or so.

"awesome"

Posted by: sven10077 at July 18, 2016 08:29 AM (SzZnW)

173
170 I will give credit to Rosanne Barr for this: She is a big supporter of Israel and confronts the joo haters on twitter. She's very good at it, too.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 18, 2016 08:29 AM (iQIUe)

As long as she only sings the "Hatikvah" over the loudspeakers at Gitmo.

175
Erdogan makes Obama look competent (sorta). The guy is a head case and is at least as narcissistic as Obama. He's probably only slightly ahead of Obama in the megalomania department. But he is loved by most Turks, or he certainly seems to be. Just like Obama.

To some of us, I think, this is hard to come to grips with. But I think I may have some idea what might be going on.

People, mainly conservative types, seem to internally believe that freedom and liberty are widely desired ideals. I'm pretty certain that this belief would not hold up to historical scrutiny. Freedom and liberty are historically, pretty rare, pretty unusual phenomena through history, I think and by and large, not all that aspired to. It's just easier to have one's life decisions made by those to whom wisdom and power have been imputed to make them, I think. That is, by far, the more common model.

When crises, and change, and a whole raft of other complications complicate life and when futures are in doubt, responsibility becomes such a heavy burden.

Better to have responsibility taken up by those who desire to possess it.

I think an examination of history would bear out that it has only ever been a tiny minority who have desired freedom and liberty for their own lives. For the vast majority, freedom and liberty are just too stressful.

That is what Erdogan in Turkey and Obama in America are proof of, I think, and with them BLM, social justice warriors, unrestricted immigration, etc. etc.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at July 18, 2016 08:31 AM (4ng05)

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167 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 18, 2016 08:27 AM (mpXpK)

When WhoreEwood reporters are reduced to crowing "it had advanced ticket #1 sales for comedies this week" it is telling you something....

still it did finish #2 for the weekend ahead of "Pets"

Posted by: sven10077 at July 18, 2016 08:31 AM (SzZnW)

177GBII took in over $40 mil bucks. It may have under performed but to call it a failure is nuts. I dont understand this hatred of the film from the time they announced they were going to make it. It's like you all are members of the Big He-Man Girlz Hatin' Klub. Blah.

1. No, I'm NOT supporting these assholes in any way shape or form.2. There are some hate crimes mixed in there, most notably the 9 black church goers killed by Dylan Roof and also the killing of 6 in a mosque in Detroit.3. A lot of the crimes were white prison gang members doing things like drug dealing and other thug stuff. And yeah, some hate killings as well. I'm not downplaying their evil.

But I do think it notable that the media hasn't seized on comparisons to white hate groups, probably because it is no contest.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 18, 2016 08:36 AM (gyKtp)

185
I'm holding out for "Little Women" to be remade with Arnold, Bruce Willis, and Christian Bale....

Posted by: sven10077 at July 18, 2016 08:34 AM (SzZnW)

==============
It's called Little Men and they have made it into a film at least 3x plus a television series.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 18, 2016 08:37 AM (iQIUe)

186I see the FBI is slowly moving towards figuring out a
motive in Orlando. Why didn't they take Mohammed's own words for it?
Failing that, of course, they could just ask his wife.

Posted by: Mr. Hope's Suitcase at July 18, 2016 08:34 AM (/m8T6)

Hey, that's a pretty good idea. I'll just go over here to the holding cell and........

Ohhhhh.

Posted by: I give you, the F. B. I. at July 18, 2016 08:38 AM (LuZz8)

187
"GBII took in over $40 mil bucks. It may have under performed but to call it a failure is nuts."

You're kidding right? This was a big budget movie that needed a huge opening weekend that it didn't get. Unlike some other big budget movies, it won't do well overseas.

194...Police in Cleveland say they aim to avoid mass arrests at the protests planned for next week's Republican National Convention, but preparations by the city's courts to process up to 1,000 people a day have some civil rights activists worried....

ILoveMyFreedom.org
http://bit.ly/2a30Fwk

Hard to imagine, but it would be entertaining to see 1000 agitators a day taken off the streets. A laugh riot.

They should just ziptie the professional protestors to wherever they act the ass....

Cleveland's crooks will take care of the "processing."

Posted by: sven10077 at July 18, 2016 08:48 AM (SzZnW)

199
I am hoping the 1,000 per day have to go to a hospital on their way to court.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at July 18, 2016 08:48 AM (1ijHg)

200
By the way, did everyone notice that Secretariat has blamed the GOP for Islamist jihad? Congressional Republicans specifically. Apparently, if Ryan/McConnell and company don't give TFG a blank check to pay taxpayer Jizya payoffs to muslims everywhere, the resulting violence, mayhem and death is completely understandable. The Koran even requires it.

Duh. Stupid Republicans.

Posted by: Mr. Hope's Suitcase at July 18, 2016 08:48 AM (/m8T6)

201
194 ...preparations by the city's courts to *process* up to 1,000 people a day

Soylent Green is protesters!

Posted by: General Zod at July 18, 2016 08:49 AM (Bdeb0)

202
GB recouped 1/3 of its budget in opening weekend. That's poor by any measure.

Given the hype, it was not because people didn't know it was coming out, it's because they didn't go to see it. Those that did were motivated to go. Calling them sexists because they don't isn't going to help that situation.

Next week box office will plummet hard, especially with strong competition opening. China won't show the movie, so there goes the world's biggest market.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 18, 2016 08:49 AM (iLoHX)

203
Police in Cleveland say they aim to avoid mass arrests at the protests planned for next week's Republican National Convention,

but preparations by the city's courts to process up to 1,000 people a day have some civil rights activists worried....

WHY is "Don't start none, won't be none" such a HARD concept?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at July 18, 2016 08:50 AM (m/IZ9)

204
Anybody keeping tab on the social media reports about GBII on Friday night?

Immediate feedback can KILL a film from one night's showing.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at July 18, 2016 08:50 AM (1ijHg)

205
Just keep the protestors away from Progressive Field. That place is a temple and must be protected at all costs, revered even.

Posted by: Mr. Hope's Suitcase at July 18, 2016 08:51 AM (/m8T6)

206
"GB recouped 1/3 of its budget in opening weekend. That's poor by any measure."

IIRC budget doesn't include marketing expense, which is often nearly as much as production budget.

So yes, a bomb.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 18, 2016 08:51 AM (r1fLd)

207...I dont understand this hatred of the film from the time they announced they were going to make it.

You probably still won't understand, but...

1. It's a remake of a classic, always fodder for negative anticipation.

2. It's a "let's put wimmen in the men's roles" switcheroo, for no reason other than to do so, likewise fodder for ridicule.

It may actually turn out to be funny, somewhat - I'll watch it when it's "available" maybe, out of curiosity, and I'll try to compartmentalize the remake/feminize/ripoff aspects so as to see it as its own thing - but I have low expectations. But, then, I watched GB2 and even some of the cartoons when the kids were young. Slimer! Hahaha, huh, kids!

215
Honestly, all the Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy movies I've seen have been rotten. Gross-out/vulgarity in the place of actual humor. Over and over and over. Yeesh.

And TV just played a Progressive Insurance Ghostbusters pastiche with Flo as a ghost. Yeesh again.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 18, 2016 08:59 AM (iLoHX)

216
Gingy? You've finally made it back across the border?! What happened? Did the mounties get you?

Posted by: Mr. Hope's Suitcase at July 18, 2016 09:00 AM (/m8T6)

217
On the Comcast homepage, they have these ad bait little 'newsy' videos that are pretty ingenious actually to drive people to suffer through incredibly annoying ads before being able to see these tiny little quasi news items.

Today, they have an anti-Trump parody ad that is trite as hell. I just don't believe that trying to paint Trump as some kind of a buffoon is going to work the way the people who are pushing that are hoping for.

It would be kind of like trying to paint Bill Clinton as some kind of hickish, hillbilly rube.

Bubba's hickish, hillbilly rubeishness was part of his charm. Similar qualities that endeared many voters to Bill are what endear many voters to Trump.

222
That is my kind of Community Disorganizer President. Barkey is clever. He tells you one thing and does the opposite. I like the way Barkey fans the embers of racial tension. It keeps things warm. You never know when the President will need race riot type of deversion in an emergency or election. The Pulpit is a powerful tool and so it the NYT. Keep shooting those crackers. It takes the focus off of the President's failures. Don't forget to send 300 dollars to Hillary's campaign before midnight.

227
Kristol's desperately trying to enforce his worldview, doesn't see the world is changing out from under his feet.

Bill's worried about his pundit position and keeps flailing to try to make the world stay the way it was when it made him someone who got listened to.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 18, 2016 09:07 AM (iLoHX)

It's just hard for me to believe that Kristol is allowing himself to be seen - and will be remembered for this - for being such a big crybaby. He's turning himself into a caricature.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at July 18, 2016 09:12 AM (4ng05)

228
My father, who used to be a religious Catholic before retiring from the UAW and watching MSNBC all day is like this now. He rants wide-eyed about the danger of Christians who are plotting to subvert the government, and that Muslims are a tiny problem in comparison. He's gone crazy; it sucks ______________________________________________

151
Remember back in the 80s when everyone thought Reagan and Jerry Falwell
were going to turn America into some puritanical theocracy?

Yeah, good times.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 18, 2016 08:09 AM (27m1/)

Leftists still think we're on the verge of becoming some sort of
Christian theocracy. Had Cruz won the nomination, that would have been
the cry.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at July 18, 2016 08:20 AM (Ee2nz)

Posted by: Pyrocles at July 18, 2016 09:12 AM (MYMcU)

229
"Barack Obama will not win a single primary against Hillary Clinton" - Bill Kristol 2007

"Donald Trump will not win a single Republican primary" - Bill Kristol 2015

Ask him who's going to win the World Series and bet on the other team.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at July 18, 2016 09:12 AM (s/EUv)

230
Kristol is genuinely deranged,like some lefties were over GW and Cheney.

Posted by: steevy at July 18, 2016 09:13 AM (B48dK)

231It's just hard for me to believe that Kristol is allowing himself to be seen - and will be remembered for this - for being such a big crybaby. He's turning himself into a caricature.

Except he doesn't see himself as a caricature. None of these Beltway nickelfuckers do. Kristol thinks he's the second coming of Cassandra; he's certain that Trump will lose in a landslide, or, if he doesn't, will prove to be an utter disaster as a president. Kristol is merely laying out markers for, when he tells us unwashed, flag-humping Bible-clingers that he was right all along, the proof will be there in black and white.

234I read a really bad "science fiction" story from the 80's about a theocratic US with no birth control or abortion.Overpopulation and terrible poverty of course.

Written by a young George Stephanopolous, no doubt.

Also known as "that moment when Romney realized they were not his friends."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 18, 2016 09:18 AM (B+qrE)

235
What happened? Did the mounties get you?
Posted by: Mr. Hope's Suitcase at July 18, 2016 09:00 AM (/m8T6)
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I've been across two borders in the last five weeks or so. We got back from Canada about a month ago!

236
225: Kind of pathetic if you think about it. Him and his ilk got so used to being strawman conservatives for the news media and the DC establishment that they forgot how to sell conservatism to middle America. In comes Trump, who had the audacity to point out that the Emperor really had no clothes so to speak and they find out that they're obsolete. Their failure to market conservatism outside their social circle and their unwillingness to say what needs to be said created an environment ripe for an alternative. They can either make peace with it and try to nudge it rightward or be forgotten. Guess I know what Kristol has chosen.

Posted by: Jackal at July 18, 2016 09:18 AM (NiR1r)

237
Bill Kristol hasn't had anything useful to add to the dialogue since before his stint hosting the Oscars. But he was okay in The Princess Bride.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 18, 2016 09:18 AM (NeFrd)

238
I read a really bad "science fiction" story from the 80's about a theocratic US with no birth control or abortion"

He's not the only one. All the people who were certain that Trump would never last more than one month in the primary and who would be happy to inform anyone listening that Trump was just about to say something that would cost him the primary, are making the same totally baseless claim. They are also the same people claiming that Trump will be some sort of dictator - another totally baseless claim made out of whole cloth to buttress their continuing, ever-wrong predictions.

No one takes them seriously. It's clear that it's just the fever talking.

First, you have to understand the 'process'. These professional street protesters get free legal training from their sponsoring organization. The protestors are told exactly what they can do, and not do, and exactly how far they have to go to get arrested.

Secondly, once arrested, they get free legal representation, paid by the same sponsoring organization that pays them to 'protest'.

Third, their lawyers plea bargin the charges down to some misdeamor, six months probation, and if the 'protester' is not arrested during that time, the charges are expunged, as if they never happened.

Fourth, 'being arrested' is a badge of honor with professional street protesters for 'standing up to the man'.

The whole thing is a farce, to generate news headlines, and frighten the rubes in fly over country. This racket has been going on for fifty years now.

And fifth, the police are handcuffed. You have seen the dramatic news photos of stone faced Law Enforcement Officers standing shoulder to shoulder while profession street protesters scream insults, standing nose to nose, posing for the photojournalists who are hoping for a Pulitzer Prize Winning photo. If the professional protesters can not provoke the police into making arrests, they escalate the level of violence. It's all about getting a picture of that bloody shirt, that bloody face, and some innocent bystander being oppressed by the tools of the white supremacists.

Posted by: G. Harold Gainsworth at July 18, 2016 09:21 AM (2AFGU)

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I'm holding out for "Little Women" to be remade with Arnold, Bruce Willis, and Christian Bale....

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shouldn't that be Peter Dinklage, Danny DeVito and Tom Cruise?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at July 18, 2016 09:23 AM (RKwmm)

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Before Dallas, the record for most cops killed by an individual was held by Maurice Clemmons, famously given clemency on his 108 year sentence by AR gubner Mike Fuckabee in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Clemmons

Racking up an additional 8 felony charges after his release, and being out on $150k bail after being charged with assaulting a cop and raping a child, Maurice gunned down 4 cops in a diner in Parkland WA.

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Ace must be pleased to see Ghostbusters only took in 46M, in second place behind a cartoon that's been out for 2 weeks.

Posted by: Eli Cash at July 18, 2016 09:27 AM (TQuI9)

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The new Methodist Bishop just ain't a thespian. Things like this make me actually believe that liberals are satan's tools. She criticized St paul for casting out a demon, saying that the demon enhanced the girls life.

She stands with the forces of hell. From Rod Dreher's blog ttp://tinyurl.com/hz6hg45.

Posted by: Brendan at July 18, 2016 09:37 AM (gkvx9)

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8,000 police arrested in Turkey puts me in the "false flag" group. When a group *on Erdogan's side* has the largest number of arrests I'm guessing he is getting rid of any allies who proved not to be sufficiently enthusiastic along with having an excuse to dispose of enemies.

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GBII took in over $40 mil bucks. It may have under performed but to call it a failure is nuts. I dont understand this hatred of the film from the time they announced they were going to make it. It's like you all are members of the Big He-Man Girlz Hatin' Klub. Blah.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 18, 2016 08:32 AM (iQIUe)

That's $46 million against a $150 million budget + whatever the marketing cost is. It's not even $46 million because the theaters get a cut. Let's call it, to be generous, $40 million. The cut the theaters get goes up each week. Add it that China will not show it and it is not going to recoup its money. The trend over the weekend was down which is a bad sign.

People hated on it because the trailers were horrible and it is a reboot of a film that geeks love. Sony actually deleted reasoned comments and left the women hating ones alone. Then Feig and Sony went all "women hating losers hate this film" to try and protect themselves. Very little of this was about women. Geeks tend to like women heroines.

First, having an openly gay pastor is in violation of UM church doctrine. Apparently this has been ignored by the greater UMC councils , either hoping it goes away or results in more members-money, so therefore is worth ignoring.

I have also read The American Conservative 's reporting of her sermons, including the one about the demonic possession, etc.

Again, people are getting stuck on what she says, and are shocked she is preaching against church and bible teachings. Instead of realizing that her openly gay lifestyle, in complete conflict of church and biblical teaching, is the biggest middle finger to the church. Why should anything she says from the pulpit be shocking?

It' s like leaving the front door unlocked and open to criminals, then being shocked when they are in your house stealing your stuff and threatening your family.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 18, 2016 09:58 AM (ZgFWy)

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The tinfoil hat crowd is in force at the RT Question site. They are blaming the U.S. government, yankees, and big pharma on Venezuela's hard times.

Posted by: Wendy at July 18, 2016 10:08 AM (bpemY)

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248: A channel on youtube called midnight's edge has a pretty good takedown of Sony's shenanigans in that regard. They know the movie sucked, so they tried to wrap it in SJWism to gin up controversy/guilt people into seeing it. Guess it didn't work. Ah the schadenfreude!

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arrangements appear to be chiefly determined by who won the state's
Republican primary. States won by nomination winner Donald Trump, like
New York and California, received prime seating for their delegates,
while states that voted for other nominees, including Texas, are stuck
in the nosebleeds.

http://tinyurl.com/juakvra

"Kirk, old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb, 'Revenge is a dish best served cold'?"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 18, 2016 06:25 AM (kdS6q)

That is petty as hell and just what I would expect of the orange one.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 18, 2016 11:11 AM (3JA/M)

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So hours after three Baton Rouge officers are murdered, this motherfucker calls on police to admit their mistakes? Fuck you, Barry!